Removing leading characters from SAS strings
SAS' Leonid Batkhan shows you how to remove ANY leading characters (not just blanks) from text strings to tidy up your data.
Tag: tips & techniques
CAS-Action! fetch CAS, fetch! - Part 2
In Part 1 of my series fetch CAS, fetch!, I executed the fetch CAS action to return rows from a CAS table. That was great, but what can you do with the results? Maybe you want to create a visualization that includes the top five cars by MSRP for all
Going from SAS 9 to SAS Viya and I can hardly contain myself
I am a long-time SAS 9 Administrator, I feel very confident in my understanding of SAS 9 administration. I will admit I don’t know everything, but I have been administering SAS since the days of SAS 9.1.3. I often tell my students I am a general practitioner when it comes
Little known secrets of DO-loops with index variables
SAS' Leonid Batkhan reveals how to use versatile iterative DO loops with index variable pertaining to SAS DATA steps.
SAS Global Forum: Your experience, your way
It’s safe to say that SAS Global Forum is a conference designed for users, by users. As your conference chair, I am excited by this year’s top-notch user sessions. More than 150 sessions are available, many by SAS users just like you. Wherever you work or whatever you do, you’ll
How to draw a Mandelbrot set in SAS Visual Analytics
Cindy Wang's curiosity about the Mandelbrot set led her to draw one using SAS Visual Analytics.
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Using shell scripts for massively parallel processing
SAS' Leonid Batkhan explores shell scripting as an alternative way to implement parallel processing.
To be and not to be – the uncertainty principle in SAS
If I were to say that we live in uncertain times, that would probably be an understatement. Therefore, I won’t say that. Oops, I already did. Or did I? For centuries, people around the world have been busy scratching their heads in search of a meaningful answer to Shakespeare’s profoundly
How to conditionally stop SAS code execution and gracefully terminate SAS session
SAS' Leonid Batkhan reveals a fuss-free way to halt SAS program execution and terminate SAS session in batch-processing scenarios.